March 2024
March/April 2024 Events at a Glance
March 8 – Eat Your Rainbow Challenge – until March 10
March 9 – 8:30 am – Gardening at Blackshear Elementary School – Saturday
March 15 – 6:30 pm – Vegan Potluck – Sunday
March 16 – 9 am – Meditation – Saturday
March 16 – 9:45 am – Yoga – Saturday
March 16 – 11 am – Cooking Class – Saturday
March 20 – 5:30 pm – Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant – Wednesday
March 23 – 12 noon – WFPB Potluck – Saturday
March 24 – 1 pm – WFPB Potluck and Presentation – Sunday
April 6 – 9:45 am – Walk With A Doc – Saturday
April 13 – Yearly Retreat – Neal Barnard and Micheal Greger!
June 9 – 2 pm – All Pods Potluck Picknick – Sunday
Springtime is here, a good time to go outside.
Seeing green trees, blue sky, maybe even water is a healthy habit. Let’s celebrate the return of sunshine, the symphony of birdsong, and the kaleidoscope of colors that await us outdoors. Ready to embrace the blooms? Check our outdoors activities or find something in your neighborhood.
Potlucks
🍽️ First UU starts into 2024 with the annual Chili Cook Off and Potluck. Please RSVP – this event is filling up!
Date and Time: Saturday, January 20 at 6 pm
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church
5200 Fannin St, Houston, 77004
🍽️ Vegan Potluck and Cooking Demo
Plant-Based Woodlands‘ next potluck will be on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 at the Terramont Park. Bring a plant-based dish to share. Anything is welcome including a simple plate of veggie crudites, fruit, or bread and hummus. Get your fresh air, good company and food.
Connect with the Woodlands Pod on Facebook.
Date and Time: Saturday, March 23, 12 noon – 2 pm
Location: 8500 Terramont Drive, The Woodlands, TX 77381
Parking is available on the YMCA premises. For more information email to PlantbasedWoodlands@gmail.com
🍽️ Bayou City Beet is inviting you to our March potluck. Lifestyle Docs invited Dr. Barry Gritz, board certified psychiatrist to talk about depression. Please bring a whole food plant based dish to share.
Date and Time: March 24 at 1 pm
Location: Lifestyle Docs Clinic 4500 Bissonnet, Suite 355, 77041
🍽️ Go Green is First UU‘s March potluck motto. Wear green, eat green, make green spaces for wildlife. Make it WFPB to help folks learn about heart-healthy living. Please RSVP – this event is filling up!
Date and Time: Friday, March 15 at 6:30 pm
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church
5200 Fannin St, Houston, 77004
🍽️ Save the Date! Harmony ‘N Houston invites everyone to the Pavilion to share community, food and the great outdoors.
Date and Time: June 9 at 2 pm
Location: Spring Brook Village Pavilion, 3209 Millwork St., Houston, 77080
Dining Out
🧑🏼🍳 PlantEd in Fort Bend invites you to join for a special whole food plant based, vegan, and oil free buffet at Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant.
Please RSVP so there will be enough food!
Date and Time: Wednesday, 5:30 – 8 pm
Location: 6800 Southwest Fwy, Houston
RSVP here or contact lisaarnold4u@yahoo.com
Cooking Classes
🥘 Lifestyle Docs welcome Leah Stolar, founding pod co-leader of Bayou City Beet, to the clinic for the March plant based cooking class! Leah offers a fabulous topic: Sauces and Dressings to make any whole food plant based dish tasty. The class is free but please register so we know you are coming.
https://embeelifestyledocs.com/cooking-class/
Date and Time: Saturday, March 16 at 11 am
Location: Lifestyle Docs, 4500 Bissonnet St. Suite #355, Bellaire, 77401
More Pod Events
The PLANTifull Fare Pod invites you to a Facebook challenge: Eat Your Rainbow! Join Donna Spencer (Pod Lead) this weekend for an eat your rainbow challenge to encourage consuming a diverse range of colorful fruit and vegetables. At end there will be a happy winner of a cookbook and everyone gets to eat lots of fruit and veggies. To participate on Facebook click here
Dates: Weekend March 8th through 10th. Winner will be notified Monday March 11th.
Lifestyle Docs Events
🧘🧘🏽♂️ The March Movement Activity will be Vinyasa Yoga with Katie Van Hooser. This is a beginner friendly class.
Cost is $10.00.
You can sign up early here
Date and Time: March 16, 9:45 – 10:50 am
Location: Lifestyle Docs, 4500 Bissonnet St. Suite #355, Bellaire, 77401
🧘🧘🏽♂️ Mindfulness Meditation with Dr. Munish Chawla, MD
🏫 Learn how to grow vegetables and help out a School Garden. Peaceful Planet Foundation collaborates with Urban Harvest supporting the Blackshear Elementary Community Garden on the second Saturday every month.
- Date and Time: March 9 at 8:30 am
- Location: Blackshear Elementary School, 2900 Holman St, 77004
- Enter parking lot from Ennis across from the Third Ward Multi-Service Community Center
🚶♀️🚶🏽♂️Walk With A Doc with Drs. Bandana and Munish Chawla, has returned. Enjoy a stroll around Evelyn’s Park while discussing lifestyle topics with the doctors and participants.
- Date and Time: April 6 at 9:45 am
- Location: Evelyn’s Park, 4400 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, 77401
The Big Event!
The 6th Annual Yearly Retreat of the Peaceful Planet Foundation is coming – Saturday, April 13th from 9am-4pm.
Registration is now open for Peaceful Planet Foundation‘s 6th Annual One Day Retreat! Held in Houston, TX, on Saturday, April 13th from 9am-4pm, it is a wonderful event! Dr. Neal Barnard from PCRM will be the keynote speaker this year, so get excited.
This year’s retreat will feature health and nutrition lectures, cooking demos, workshops, a variety of vendors, yoga and mindfulness sessions, and more. Plant-based lunch is included. Breakfast, snacks, and beverages will be available for purchase. Suggested donation for in-person registration. Please 1. fill in the boxes, 2. sign the waiver near the end of the form at the link below. For early bird, the suggested donation is $35. The suggested donation will increase $45 on 2/1/24.
Scroll to the bottom of this link to https://peacefulplanetfoundation.org/yearly-retreat-2024/ to complete the registration. Enjoy highlights from the 2023 retreat here.
Until next month our friends, we wish you good health, lots of laughter, and peace!
In Peace and Health,
PlantPure Houston Pod Leaders
Pod Leader contacts
Contact Karoline (aka Karlina)
Bayou City Beet POD
Ettental@yahoo.com
(832) 647-2220
Contact Lisa
PlantEd Fort Bend POD
LisaArnold4U@yahoo.com
(713) 560-7849
Contact Susan
Harmony N Houston POD
susanintheheights@att.net
(713) 724-1880
Contact Donna:
PLANTifull Fare POD
donna@plantifullfare.com
Contact Sangeeta
Plant-Based Woodlands
sangeeta_wahi@yahoo.com
